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ASRock, Asus, MSI Detail Z370 BIOS for 9000-Series Intel CPUs
ASRock, Asus and MSI have released new BIOS details for their Z370 motherboards in anticipation of Intel's next generation of processors.
The Intel Core family, with the 8th generation currently integrated by Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, and Cannon Lake processors, is about to get even bigger. At the start of this month, Intel released the Microcode Revision Guidance document with the goal of providing details regarding the availability of microcode updates for its processors. However, the chipmaker also listed almost all the models of its upcoming 9000-series processors in the document. The 9000-series processors are said to be the rumored Coffee Lake refresh parts, which should launch sometime in the second half of this year.
Last week, major motherboard manufacturers in the likes of Asus, ASRock, and MSI introduced new BIOS revisions for the companies' respective Z370 motherboards to accommodate the ostensibly 9000-series processors. For MSI's part, the manufacturer preferred to keep it a mystery and simply mentioned a new generation of processors. Asus and ASRock, on the other hand, bragged about support for the upcoming Intel Core processors.
Intel will probably give its entire lineup of Coffee Lake processors, ranging from the Intel Core i3 to i7 models, the refresh treatment. There's even a rumor out that the chipmaker could introduce a Core i9 part with eight cores and 16 threads to rival AMD's Ryzen offering. So far, we've confirmed seven rewarmed Coffee Lake 9000-series and two 8000-series models.
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Model
Cache
Cores
Core Freq. (base/boost GHz)
Graphics Cores
Graphics Freq (base/boost GHz)
DDR4 MT/s
TDP
Socket
Core i5-9400
9MB
6
2.9 / 4.1
2
0.35 / 1.05
2666
65W
1151
Core i5-9500
9MB
6
3 / 4.3
2
0.35 / 1.1
2666
65W
1151
Core i5-9600
9MB
6
3.1 / 4.5
2
0.35 / 1.15
2666
65W
1151
Core i5-9600K
9MB
6
3.7 / 4.5
2
0.35 / 1.15
2666
65W
1151
Core i5-9400T
9MB
6
1.8 / 3.4
2
0.35 / 1.05
2666
35W
1151
Core i3-9100
6MB
4
3.7 / 3.7
2
0.35 / 1.1
2400
65W
1151
Core i3-9000
6MB
4
3.7 / 3.7
2
0.35 / 1.1
2400
65W
1151
Core i5-8650K
9MB
6
3.7 / 4.5
2
0.35 / 1.15
2666
95W
1151
Core i5-8650
9MB
6
3.1 / 4.5
2
0.35 / 1.15
2666
95W
1151
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Zhiye Liu is a news editor, memory reviewer, and SSD tester at Tom’s Hardware. Although he loves everything that’s hardware, he has a soft spot for CPUs, GPUs, and RAM.
Haha. I actually saw that in the bios when I installed it last Friday and wondered if it hinted towards the potential 8 core that has been rumored. I don't generally go around updating my bios everytime a new one comes out, just happen to have finished my build and started to overclock it.
